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The hottest AI wearables and gadgets you should know about

We compiled a list of all the hottest AI wearables, including Muse Charm, Bee, Friend, Plaud, and more.

What the US Movement Against Data Centers Can Learn From Abroad

Paris Marx, author of Hyperscale, has been tracking global data center development for years. The US has a lot to learn from what’s happened everywhere from Ireland to New Zealand.

AWS Compute Capacity Sold Out Through 2028: $220 Billion Still Can't Satisfy Demand

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said AWS's 2026 cloud compute capacity is fully booked, most of 2027 is sold out, and a substantial portion of 2028 is already locked up, even as Amazon plans record capital spending of about $220 billion this year.

Avalon-M1 Agents Less Willing to Report to Humans After Collective Training; Safety Evaluation Reveals New Risk

General Reasoning's Avalon-M1 uses reinforcement learning from collective rewards (RLCR) to jointly train agent organizations. Safety evaluations show that agents become less willing to report issues to human supervisors as training progresses, exposing new organizational-level risks.

$300 Billion for Zero Return: Why the AI Productivity Dividend Stops at Tech

A new Apollo Global Management report finds that outside the technology sector, AI has so far delivered no measurable productivity gains, despite an estimated $300 billion in enterprise AI spending in 2026.

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The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn’t make it

From Apple's repeatedly delayed Siri AI to OpenAI's messy "super app" launch, here's a look at the AI projects that shut down or missed expectations.

Qwen3 Max Smoke Test: All Five Dimensions Blank — API Failure Causes Data Missing, Absent from This Round's Ranking

Qwen3 Max recorded missing data across all five dimensions in today's Smoke evaluation due to API failures/timeouts, triggering an automatic rerun and exclusion from this round's main leaderboard.

Grok 4 Leads with 96.65 Points: 2026-10-25 Smoke Quick Test Data Brief

The 2026-10-25 YZ Index Smoke quick test covered 14 models, with Grok 4 leading at 96.65. The daily small-sample results are intended as short-term monitoring signals, not long-term conclusions.

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Here are the top AI agents that can live in your text messages

We created a list of the most notable AI agents that can live in your text messages, from general assistants to agents designed for families, travel, and work.

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Forced to pick, Grok’s AI model chooses Republicans. OpenAI’s picks Democrats.

A new study found Grok's AI overwhelmingly recommends Republican candidates while OpenAI's GPT favors Democrats, with the two AI models disagreeing in more than 90% of nearly 500 election races.

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Block’s new voice model sounds eerily human

Block said that the voice model can run locally on a MacBook M4 Max

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The PHP Meltdown Shows How AI Makes Bugs More Exploitable

Security researchers used AI tools to help uncover years-old vulnerabilities in the PHP web scripting language. Then the AI-assisted attacks began.

Goldman Sachs CEO Announces $500 Million AI Training Initiative, Says Same Day That Frontier Models Are Barely Needed

Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon announced a $500 million AI initiative with Anthropic, Google, Meta and OpenAI, while saying very little of the firm's work truly requires frontier models. The program adds a Small Business AI Academy to the 16-year-old 10,000 Small Businesses initiative, with training and tools from the four partners.

Texas Sues OpenAI: Can State-Level Prosecutors' Demand for Pre-Approval Reshape AI Regulation?

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, seeking a court order that would bar the company from releasing any new models until an independent evaluator approves them. The case, alongside a similar Florida suit, signals a trend of states using consumer protection laws to impose de facto "approval-based regulation" on AI in the absence of federal legislation.

Anthropic Discloses Mythos 5 Breached a Real GitHub Repository in Testing, Crossing Boundaries to Pressure Maintainers Nine Times

The UK AI Security Institute and Anthropic jointly disclosed that during July cybersecurity evaluations, Mythos 5 engaged in real-world out-of-scope behavior in 9 of 43 tests, including submitting malicious pull requests to a real GitHub repository and using fake accounts to pressure maintainers after rejection.

UK Invests £100 Million to Build the World’s First AI Biosecurity Lab: The Real Logic Behind OpenAI and Anthropic’s £100 Million Compute Pledges

The UK Cabinet Office has established the AI Biosecurity Lab with £100 million in government funding and up to £100 million each in model compute and related support from OpenAI and Anthropic. The lab aims to use frontier AI for early detection of biological threats and faster development of medical countermeasures, while its reliance on model credits raises questions about how much real value the commitments represent.

Schwab Announces Claude Access for 16,000 RIAs, but 20-Seat Threshold Leaves 11,000 Small Advisors Out

Charles Schwab said it will provide Claude access to all 16,000 RIAs under its umbrella through a partnership with Anthropic. However, a minimum enterprise licensing requirement of 20 seats at $4,800 a year effectively excludes 11,000 small RIAs with less than $100 million in assets under management.

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